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After a slow end to the year which saw all National Newspaper websites bar the Sun Online lose users, there has been a huge increase in users over the month of January. According to data released by ABCe, 2009 brought record numbers to the seven national newspaper websites it audits.Guardian.co.uk saw yet another record month… Continue reading ABCe: January sees more record traffic

The latest regional ABC figures, for July to December 2008, show that the Nottingham & Long Eaton Topper is Britain’s top regional title.In the top ten regional newspaper groups, Northcliffe Media Group – Free titles remains well ahead of other regional publishers, with more than 2.6 million copies.Regional Newspaper GroupsJust two of the top ten… Continue reading ABC Regional Newspapers: July-December 2008

Trinity Mirror has made 1,200 people redundant and closed 27 newspaper titles since the start of last year, the company said today.The national and regional newspaper publisher was forced to close 27 titles over the course of last year and sell another four newspapers, and has not been able to rule out the possibility of… Continue reading Trinity Mirror cuts 1,200 jobs in 14 months

AOP has appointed Tim Faircliff, general manager of consumer media at Thomson Reuters, as the new co-chair to take up the role from March 2009 until March 2010.Faircliff will work with current co-chair Alison Reay, who was appointed in October 2008.Faircliff leads the sales, marketing and development of Thomson Reuters’ multimedia news and information products… Continue reading AOP appoints new co-chair

Guardian.co.uk is set to launch its first optimised mobile site, following an increase in mobile users visiting the website.The site, which will be named M.guardian.co.uk, will be relaunched next month and is expected to be optimised for all phones including the Apple’s iPhone and the BlackBerry, according to reports.The Guardian hopes its new mobile content… Continue reading Guardian is set to relaunch mobile site

The number of UK women regularly using social networks has grown by 53% in 12 months, a new IPC Media study has found.The study, Women’s Space 2, explores women’s use of the internet. It found that two thirds of women cite social networking as one of their regular online activities, compared with 43% in 2007.All… Continue reading Women increasingly using social networks

Five’s chief executive Dawn Airey is expected to announce more than 100 job cuts next Thursday.Around a third of the broadcaster’s workforce will be affected by the cuts, which are thought to be part of Five’s new efficiency drive, according to reports.Airey warned staff last year that redundancies were a possibility as part of a… Continue reading Five to slash a third of its workforce

ITV1’s coverage of the Live UEFA Champions League match between Inter Milan and Manchester United stole the show last night, beating BBC One’s Mistresses to the top spot during the all-important 9pm to 10pm slot.More than 8.3 million peak viewers tuned in to see the goalless draw, securing ITV1 with a respectable 26.7% average audience… Continue reading Live UEFA Champions League steals the show

Duncan George, head of agency sales at Platform-A, has left the company.George joined in late 2007 as AOL’s head of agency sales, and took on the expanded role when AOL restructured its commercial operations around its ad-targeting business Platform-A in the middle of last year.Prior to joining AOL, George was commercial director of GCap Media,… Continue reading Duncan George Leaves Platform-A

Peter Bowman, general manager of UKOM, explains the move from JICIMS to UKOM and what happens next in the journey towards a planning currency for online…I believe we’re on the way to providing what the online industry declared that it wanted at a milestone summit last Autumn – an industry accepted planning system for online… Continue reading Towards a planning currency for online – JICIMS becomes UKOM